JAPAN: Enemy's Estimate

Into Yokohama Harbor last week steamed the exchange liner Teia Maru,
bringing home some 1,300 Japanese citizens, able & willing to give
their Government firsthand reports on how matters stood in the enemy
U.S. after nearly two years of war.*

U.S. listeners, monitoring Japanese home broadcasts, found the speeches
and newspaper quotations following two main lines: 1) to brace Jap
hope, stories of U.S. weakness and disunity; 2 ) to spur the Jap war
effort, solemn warnings that vast physical resources make the U.S. an
enemy to be feared.